Corset.



P. T. WELTON.

GORSET.

APPLICATION FILED N0\T.19, 1910.

Patented July 18,1911.

ccLuMnm PLANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON, n. c.

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FRANK T. WELTON, 0F NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO STROUSE, ADLER 66 CO., 0F NEW' HAVEN, CONNECTICUT,A FIRM.

CORSET.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 19, 1910.

Patented July 18, 1911.

Serial No. 593,234.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK T. WELToN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and 4which said drawings constitute part of this speciication, and represent, in-

Figure l a broken view in front elevation of the upper portion of a corset constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 a broken view in vertical section on the line a-b of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 a broken view in horizontal section on the line o-d of Fig. 1.

My invention relates to an improvement in high-bust corsets, the object being to provide simple, convenient and effective means for conforming the .upper portion of a corset to the bust.

With these ends in view my invention consists in a corset having certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention, the two corset-halves 2 and 3 are formed in front with two horizontally arranged wedgeshaped bust-sections 4: and 5 corresponding to each other and extending above the normal height of an ordinary corset, the abutting inner ends of these sections being straight and abutted on the vertical line on which the said fronts are abutted, their upper and lower edges being convexed and their outer ends being pointed and extended outward in opposite directions, and both being furnished with short bones 6 virtually forming continuations of the main bones 7 and graduated in length to conform to the varying width of the said bustsections which are not isolated from the fronts of the two corset halves in the sense of being made independently thereof and applied thereto, but are virtually isolated therefrom by having their own graduated bones which, through the fabric used in making the corset, are virtually articulated, so to speak, with upper ends of the main bones which they virtually extend. For conforming these bust-sections to the body, they are furnished with six horizontally arranged puckering tapes, z'. e., two upper tapes 8, two middle tapes 9 and two lower t-apes 10, these six tapes being threaded through and confined in strips 11 of beading so called, or strips of other material adapted by their pliability to readily pucker. The inner ends of the tapes 8, 9 and 10 project from the inner ends of the pliable strips ll along the line of the abutment of the bust-sections 4 and 5 which may be puckered or contracted as required to conform the bust-sections to the bust by drawing upon the complementary tapes, that is to say, upon the two upper tapes 8 or the two middle tapes 9,l or the two lower tapes 10. Vhen the bust-sections l and 5 are Sulliciently conformed to the body the tapes are tied as shown. The outer ends of the tapes 8, 9 and 10 converge in the outer ends or points of the bust-sections and are secured to the body of the corset so that the pull, so to speak, exerted in puckering the bustsections is exerted upon the corset proper.

I am aware that it is old to furnish a corset with breast-pockets set into the body of the corset and furnished with tapes for conforming them. lI do vnot therefore, broadly claim the conformation of breastpockets by tapes but only my particular construction.

I claim:

In a corset, the combination with two corset-halves provided with bones, of two horizontally arranged wedge-shaped bustsections respectively extending upward above the normal height of the front of the said halves and provided with short bones graduated in length and arranged to virtually form extensions of the said main bones with which they are articulated through the fabric of the corset, and the straight inner ends of the said bust-sections being abutted on the vertical line on which the said corset-halves are abutted; and tapes applied to the Said bust-sections, and having theii` outer ends projected beyond the abutspecification in the presence of two snbserbi ting edges of the seid bust-sections, Wherelng Witnesses.

by b diawino* upon the noject-ino' ends of T 7 the goniplemeitary tapes,l the tWoCbust-see- FRAA K T' W ELTON' 5 tions may be simultaneously contracted and Vitnesses:

fitted to the body. FREDERIC C. EARLE,

In testimony whereof, l have signed this CLARA L. VEED.

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